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Over the next few months we will be producing
and releasing:

1 - The Evaluation Maven
Manifesto 3.02 - 30 videos explaining many aspects of
accelerated speaker development3 - A two hour speaker
development online workshop based on the Evaluation Maven
Manifesto 3.04 - Translations of the Evaluation Maven
Manifesto 3.0 into six languages (Arabic, French, German,
Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish)5 - A 'How To' guide for
starting speaker development groups6 - A new website - the
EMM Project - to support the entire effort

.....all
free to the world.

Evaluation Maven Manifesto
2.0

What you
will learn/gain from reading this
Book

The real value of
Evaluations - for You, the Speaker and the
AudienceTo appreciate the vast tapestry of elements to
evaluateThe Three Levels of Listening and how to
Actively Listen at Level ThreeHow to construct a Superb Speech
EvaluationHow to effectively use different Evaluations
techniquesWhen to most effectively use each evaluation
techniqueHow to effectively conduct Team
EvaluationsHow to enhance Evaluations using Audio and
Video camera technologyEffective strategies for winning Speech
Evaluation contestsFour types of speech structures and how to
evaluate them

The Back
StoryIn early
2011 I decided to enter the Toastmasters International
Speech contest. I wrote my speech the morning of the
contest and read most of it during the contest. Actually
to say it was a contest is not quite accurate - I was
the only contestant!

One of the clubs seasoned
Toastmasters delivered a very encouraging evaluation and
then facilitated a 20 minute group evaluation. Working
with all the feedback I received I went on to win at the
Area and Division levels and competed at the District
(all of British Columbia) level.

To see
first-hand how thoughtful and insightful feedback had
helped me take what I had written and hone it into a
winning speech fascinated me. In order to uncover and
understand the value of feedback I started to research
and write about it. I discovered that there is a
community of people who share their thoughts and
evaluation techniques on-line but there was no
comprehensive resource available.

The Evaluation
Maven Manifesto is my contribution back to this
community.

As far as I can tell there is
currently no other on-line resource as comprehensive as
the Evaluation Maven Manifesto. If you know of one
please email me. Thanks.

Click on the Language to
Download the PDF file.Arabic, French, German,
Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish versions will be
available as they are
translated.

History: Named by Rodney Denno to
convey that the flow of a speech is an important part of
its overall effectiveness.When the speaker wants feedback regarding
what aspects of the speech and its delivery contribute
to maintaining or building momentum and which apects
disipate that momentum. How did the speech flow
from the opening phrase to its closing words?

History: Widely used to provide
feedback to when the speech and speaker are exceptional
and deserve to have their strong points emphasized in
addition to some suggestions for fine tuning the speech
or its delivery. This technique can be used when
the speaker is more sensitive to negative feedback and
needs lots of positive encouragement. Focus more
attention on the strengths of the speech and speaker
while also providing constructive feedback on specific
suggestions for improvement.

History: Widely used to provide
feedback when the speech objectives are clear and the
speaker wants the evaluation centred on the objectives.
Objectives can come from the speakers personal
objectives for the speech or from a speech manual such
as those provided by Toastmasters for each of its manual
speeches.